The Oktoberfest is also about to be canceled in 2021 due to corona.
Munich mayor Dieter Reiter does not believe that the Oktoberfest will take place as planned in five months.
Munich
- Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (62, SPD) made an almost unmistakable statement about the Oktoberfest 2021 - and put a stab in the heart of all Oktoberfest fans.
After the largest folk festival in the world had to be announced in 2020 due to the corona pandemic, many - including Reiter himself - had hoped that the situation would improve so much by autumn this year that the Oktoberfest could be implemented.
However, in view of the still high number of infections worldwide and the slow start of the vaccination campaign in Germany, this now seems increasingly unlikely.
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In an interview with the Bild newspaper, Reiter now says: “Last year I firmly assumed that the 2021 Oktoberfest would take place.
Hope gets weaker from week to week if you are honest. ”As of today, the Oktoberfest could not take place according to the current regulations.
The corona new infections * worldwide are still high, the pandemic is not really subsiding.
It is difficult to imagine, according to Reiter, that there could then be “the world's largest folk festival”.
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Although it would take another five months before the traditional saying in the Schottenhamel festival tent on the Theresienwiese in Munich * would be: “O'zapft is!”, A decision about the organization of the Oktoberfest must now be made as soon as possible.
Because the Oktoberfest needs several months in advance.
Planning, registering the showmen, setting up - the hot phase usually starts in June.
Reiter now wants to clarify the Oktoberfest topic together with Prime Minister Markus Söder (54, CSU) in May.
But the mayor is not very optimistic: "The probability is high that such festivals are not responsible for infectious reasons," said Reiter.
There would have to be "landslide-like vaccination movements" in order to change something in the current situation.
Oktoberfest 2021 will probably be canceled - hosts and showmen face another hard blow
At the end of March, Reiter was not very confident about hosting an Oktoberfest in 2021 *.
Even Munich's economic advisor Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU) was not very optimistic at the time.
One does not want to damage the Wiesn brand, he said in an interview with
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and warned: "The Wiesn must not become an Ischgl."
For the landlords, but above all for the showmen, who have been banned from practicing their profession for over a year due to the pandemic, the final cancellation of the Oktoberfest would be a heavy but expected blow.
It is still unclear whether there will be a "Wiesn replacement" like the "Summer in Munich" from 2020 in 2021.
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